Today is a day of mourning for the people of Norway and especially for the families of the innocent young victims whose lives were claimed by a so-called Christian with a ‘mission’.
I shudder to think how many Americans believe in their right to carry a gun. Use it or lose it.
There is a face in my classroom I’ll never forget (though his name escapes me). He always sat in the middle of the front row with a smile and real interest. One day he was absent. He and his brother had been playing with a BB gun at home alone and the shot pierced his liver. He nearly died and spent months in hospital and rehab.
When I read stories like the one of last Friday I think of him and countless others who believe firearms are only for show. No folks, they are designed to kill and will make you a victim or a killer, or both.
Living in a European country (France) that has one of the last annual military parades, it’s awful to read the testimony of our president up for reelection. He bemoaned the destruction of the Norwegian government building and passed in silence over the killing of young socialists, to whom he is of course philosophically opposed. The end justifies the means for anyone who votes for him. Along with the right to cheat on campaign funds, denigrate opponents and parade over dead soldiers to gain votes.
Sorry to digress from constitutional rights, but that’s what we find in our small change.
